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A receipt addressed to the village grain collectors of Karanis in the Arsinoite nome, in which the farmer Esouris son of Pasoknopaios acknowledges receiving seed-grain for year 22 of Antoninus (Pius), for parcels of royal and revenue land at Patsontis, Kerkesoucha and another location. Such seed advances were repaid after the harvest with interest.
The number 78 (οη) attached to the cleruchy and the expansion of the abbreviated place names, especially Psenarpsenesis and the Kamelian land, are uncertain. The receipt records only land areas; the seed quantity was probably about one artaba per aroura.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Grain receipt). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Receipt given to the sitologoi (village grain collectors) by a farmer for an advance of seed-corn issued to enable him to sow the lands assigned him. The distribution was made in the late autumn, and probably at the rate of one artaba of grain for each aroura of land. These adv…
σιτολόγοις Καρανίδος ἔσχον προσφωνήσας σπερμάτων κβ ἔτους Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου οη κληρουχίας Ἐσοῦρις Πασοκνοπαίου Πατσώντεως βασιλικῆς ἀρουρῶν ϛ 𐅵 η Κερκεσούχων προσόδου ἀρουρῶν β 𐅵 δ Ψεναρψενήσεως Καμηλιανῆς ἀρούρης α η ιϛ
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